You might be overdoing this, Phil. What is true is that in esp southern Republican states are economic and hence social havenots in the USA. They rate lower on most social-economic indices. Standardized testing is found across the country. You might also look at how effective gerrymandering has been in what are currently Republican, even Democrat states.
You might be overdoing this, Phil. What is true is that in esp southern Republican states are economic and hence social havenots in the USA. They rate lower on most social-economic indices. Standardized testing is found across the country. You might also look at how effective gerrymandering has been in what are currently Republican, even Democrat states.
Please, Frank, check Diane Ravitch's "The Language Police."
Read its many score pages of appendices detailing the corporate orthodoxies of neutering everyone.
Our worst are not the (former) working class deplorables, but today's elite law school and M.B.A. grads geared to assist in profit taking to help float our most nihilist billionaires.
I dont think this has anything to do with standardized testing, Phil, which is what i was responding to. Corporate profit maximizing is no different than what you find in Adam Smith. Modern technology though has had a huge effect on centralizing economic institutions and creating oligarchies and virtual monopolies, in fact the corporate barons justified a lot of their monopolistic behavior on just that fact. It's been on and off bouts with state regulation ever since. I guess you need to take this up with virtually every American administration since when, whether Dem or GOP. I guess you could say the Marx was right, after all. He condemned it. David Hume and many others have praised it.
". . . monopolistic behavior" has "been on and off bouts with state regulation ever since."
Nice, Frank.
I've been reading the recent book by William Hogeland, "The Hamilton Scheme." All about this founding of the U.S., with the need to placate the money connections as central.
You might be overdoing this, Phil. What is true is that in esp southern Republican states are economic and hence social havenots in the USA. They rate lower on most social-economic indices. Standardized testing is found across the country. You might also look at how effective gerrymandering has been in what are currently Republican, even Democrat states.
Please, Frank, check Diane Ravitch's "The Language Police."
Read its many score pages of appendices detailing the corporate orthodoxies of neutering everyone.
Our worst are not the (former) working class deplorables, but today's elite law school and M.B.A. grads geared to assist in profit taking to help float our most nihilist billionaires.
I dont think this has anything to do with standardized testing, Phil, which is what i was responding to. Corporate profit maximizing is no different than what you find in Adam Smith. Modern technology though has had a huge effect on centralizing economic institutions and creating oligarchies and virtual monopolies, in fact the corporate barons justified a lot of their monopolistic behavior on just that fact. It's been on and off bouts with state regulation ever since. I guess you need to take this up with virtually every American administration since when, whether Dem or GOP. I guess you could say the Marx was right, after all. He condemned it. David Hume and many others have praised it.
". . . monopolistic behavior" has "been on and off bouts with state regulation ever since."
Nice, Frank.
I've been reading the recent book by William Hogeland, "The Hamilton Scheme." All about this founding of the U.S., with the need to placate the money connections as central.